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Sunday, 10 February 2013

The
utter desperation of the “Warmists”, the advocates of global warming—now called
climate change—is evident in a recent “study” reported in the Daily Caller in
which “an international team of researchers” concluded that
“earthworms could be contributing to global warming.”
Earthworms!

That's how stupid they think the
public is.

It is useful to know the composition
of the Earth’s atmosphere, the object of much fear-mongering by Greens and
Warmists. According to Wikipedia,“Air is the name given to the
atmosphere used in breathing and photosynthesis. Dry air contains roughly (by
volume) 78.09% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.039% carbon dioxide, and
small amounts of other gases. Air also contains a variable amount of water
vapor, on average around 1%. While air content and atmospheric pressure vary at
different layers, air suitable for the survival of terrestrial plants and
terrestrial animals is currently only known to be found in Earth's troposphere
and artificial atmospheres."

The amount of carbon dioxide
(CO2) in the atmosphere is extraordinarily low compared to its other elements.
Edmund
Contoski, the author of the award-winning “Makers and Takers”, a study of
how wealth and progress is created or thwarted, has noted that “Not only is
carbon dioxide’s total greenhouse effect puny, mankind’s contribution to it is
minuscule. The overwhelming majority (97%) of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s
atmosphere comes from nature, not from man.”

Not only are worms
contributing to the CO2 in the atmosphere, but Contoski notes that “Volcanoes,
swamps, rice paddies, fallen leaves, and even insects and bacteria alone emit
ten times more carbon dioxide than all the factories and automobiles in the
world. Natural wetlands emit more greenhouse gases than all human activities
combined.” Contoski’s data is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy which
also notes that 98% of all the carbon dioxide emissions are absorbed again by
Nature.

According to a February 5 Wall
Street Journal article, President Obama’s forthcoming State of the Union
speech “will lay out a renewed effort to combat climate change that is expected
to include using his authority to curb emissions from existing power plants…Mr.
Obama is likely to signal he wants to move beyond proposed Environmental
Protection Agency rules on emissions from new power plants and tackle existing
coal-fired plants…”

There is not a scintilla of
evidence that reducing carbon dioxide to avoid global warming has any basis in
science, but ample evidence that Obama sees it as a way to reduce the nation’s
capacity to generate the energy—electricity—it requires for economic growth. The
effort to impose a carbon tax would suck more wealth out of the private sector
while fueling the government’s insatiable desire for more
funding.

The
administration’s efforts to maintain this absurd, baseless notion were on full
display when a report was released in January by the National
Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee, claiming that “humans
have so altered the composition of the atmosphere that the next glaciation (ice
age) has now been delayed indefinitely.” The northeastern states were hit with a
monster blizzard in February.

In late December, The
Heartland Institute brought together fourteen conservative think tanks and
advocacy groups to urge Congress to oppose carbon taxes. In a letter sent to all
U.S. Senators and Representatives, they pointed out that a new tax on carbon
content of fossil fuels would be a job killer and raise energy costs across the
board, “hurting every industry and every consumer.” The letter noted that carbon
is already taxed enough and that U.S. carbon emissions are already declining,
but the bottom line is that reducing U.S. emissions will have no effect at all
on the so-called climate change. Why? Emissions from China, India, and
other developing nations are rising rapidly.The irony of this is that
more carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere would contribute to
healthier forests and jungles, and most importantly, to increased crop yields
that provide food for mankind and livestock, as well as all other creatures that
consume vegetation as part of their diet. Carbon dioxide is Nature’s fertilizer
for vegetation from a single blade of grass to a giant Sequoia tree.

There is no “consensus” among scientists regarding global warming and
many, like those warning about earthworms, have misled Americans and others
around the world with the greatest hoax of the modern era.

Since 2008, the U.S. has wasted nearly $70 billion on “climate change
activities.” A report by the Congressional Research Service revealed that, from
fiscal years 2008 through 2012, the federal government spent $68.4 billion to
“combat climate change.” In addition, the Department of Defense spent $4 billion
on the same futile, idiotic efforts when, in fact, humans play no role whatever
in the changes occurring in the Earth’s climate. The Earth has actually been
COOLING since around 1998 and that is entirely the result of less solar
radiation. Those billions are an obscene waste of taxpayer
funding.

Obama is lying. And he is using the Environmental Protection Agency to
advance his lies as they produce more and more regulations whose sole purpose is
to shut down existing coal-fired utilities and render impossible the
construction of more utilities using coal in a nation that has centuries-worth
of affordable coal reserves for the generation of more electricity to serve our
energy needs. He is no friend of any other fossil fuel if the delay of the XL
Keystone pipeline is any indication.